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Most unhappy: Google, Microsoft and Amazon are forcing employees to return to offices
At a recent virtual meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai read out one of the most popular questions for company employees: “Google is making record profits during the pandemic, why do you (Google management) want to return employees to the office at this time?”
According to the source, Google will require most employees to return to their offices three days a week to work. Since the start of the pandemic, the company has always said it hopes people will eventually be able to return to the office. However, many employees expressed concern and questioned whether a return to regular offices was really necessary.
Tech companies, including Google, have done particularly well during the pandemic. Thanks in part to a plethora of cloud-based collaboration tools. Employees are accustomed to being flexible and being able to spend more time with their families. Now that many companies are forcing their workers to return to work, the job market continues to tighten.
Two-thirds of employers say they expect employees to work full-time in the office again. However, half of the employees say they will look for a new job if necessary. A serious conflict arose between employers and employees on the topic of returning to work.
Many companies have changed their policies several times. In June 2021, Amazon withdrew its original plan to return to office work and notified permanent employees that the company would allow them to return to the office three days a week without requiring a permanent presence. Amazon said in October that the decision would be left up to individual teams.
Microsoft and Google have added a 30-day “transition period” to make it easier for employees to adjust to returning to regular offices. Google made its first attempt to get employees back into the office last spring, before the resurgence of Covid-19 infections in the United States. At the time, Google says employees can apply to work remotely for up to 12 months. However, this will only be approved in “the most exceptional circumstances”.
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Up to 80 GB of memory and liquid cooling. Nvidia is preparing a new version of the A100 accelerator
Although Nvidia recently introduced the H100 accelerator on the new Hopper architecture, the company is preparing a new version of the old Nvidia A100 on the Ampere architecture.
The new version stands out with a liquid cooling system instead of the passive one of the regular version. Given the release of the new version of the adapter, Nvidia clearly will not be phasing them out after the release of the H100. Recall that new items will be released sometime in the second half of the year, but the company did not specify the timing.
The Nvidia A100 in the PCIe version has 40 or 80 GB of memory and delivers 19.5 TFLOPS of performance.
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Xiaomi declares a price war. The company reduces the cost of Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro in China immediately by $ 75
A big sale of 618 is starting soon in China, and many companies are preparing for it in advance. Including Xiaomi. The company announced a price cut for its flagships in China from May 23rd. And on this day, pre-sales of smartphones with updated price tags will start, but in reality the promotion will be launched on May 31.
The cost of Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro will drop by 500 yuan or $75 at once. As a result, the most affordable Xiaomi 12 can be purchased for $480. Xiaomi 12X will also become cheaper, but not so significantly – by 300 yuan or $ 45. The price of this model in the basic version will be 2400 yuan or $360.
Recall that Xiaomi 12X is no different from Xiaomi 12, except for a single-chip system: if the older model is based on SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, then Xiaomi 12X is built on Snapdragon 870. And Xiaomi 12 Pro differs from Xiaomi 12 in having a 2K screen and a 50-megapixel sensor Sony IMX707 optical format 1 / 1.28 inches, as well as support for 120W charging.
An engineering sample of the new flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor lit up in a screenshot posted on the well-known Chinese forum Chiphell. The Windows task manager shows a frequency of 5.37 GHz, however, according to the insider Greymon55 (as well as data published on the Web earlier), the 16-core flagship of the Ryzen 7000 family will be able to overclock to 5.45 GHz with one or two active cores.
According to the same Greymon55, all Ryzen 7000 series processors will operate at a frequency of over 5.0 GHz when loading 1-2 cores. So, the maximum frequency of the Ryzen 7900X will be 5.3 GHz, the frequency of the Ryzen 7 7800X will be 5.2 GHz, the frequency of the Ryzen 5 7600X will be 5.1 GHz. Well, when loading all the cores, all these CPUs will be able to keep the frequency of 5.0 GHz.
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Although Nvidia recently introduced the H100 accelerator on the new Hopper architecture, the company is preparing a new version of...
Xiaomi declares a price war. The company reduces the cost of Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro in China immediately by $ 75
A big sale of 618 is starting soon in China, and many companies are preparing for it in advance. Including...
All AMD Ryzen 7000 processors will overclock above 5.0 GHz
An engineering sample of the new flagship AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor lit up in a screenshot posted on the...
Smartphones of the Xiaomi 12 line will soon cease to be the newest flagships of the company. Production of Xiaomi 12T and 12T Pro has already begun
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